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...ts longevity by being in use for a reasonable amount of time – ideally 10 years, but five is the minimum. We continuously monitor developments in the English language. oxforddictionaries.com: The process for adding words to oxforddictionaries.com is similar to that of the OED, but the turnaround...

...lated verb to adult shift the noun adult into verbal use. Such ‘verbing’ of nouns is often criticized, but it is a common source of new words in English (it’s how we got the word parenting, which adulting is probably modelled on). The word adulting was used from time to time during the 20th cent...

...exical Engine and Platform (LEAP), where our multilingual[1] dictionary data is optimized and semantically linked.Although APIs for languages such as English are fully realized, the Oxford Dictionaries API places additional emphasis on the availability of digitally underrepresented languages, such as Indon...

...oanword from Japanese defined as ‘a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication’. It was used in English-language Japanese publications as early as 1997 but remained rare outside of Japanese contexts until 2011, when Apple launched iOS 5 with emoji suppo...

...rd from Japanese defined as ‘a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication’. It was used in English-language Japanese publications as early as 1997 but remained rare outside of Japanese contexts until 2011, when Apple launched iOS 5 with emoji suppo...

Tennis words amongst those to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary -- 27th June, Oxford, UK -- Today the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announces its latest update, which includes a batch of t...

Institutional subscriptions are available for each Oxford Dictionaries Premium language module: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish – and for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). To purchase a subscription...

March 2017 - This month, parents around the UK will be invited to contribute to the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) research into the language of parenting. Users of the parenting site Mumsnet will have the opportunity to tell the...

12 SEPTEMBER 2016, Oxford, UK -- Today the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announces its latest update, including more than 1,000 revised and updated entries and around 1,200 new senses. This confirms the OE...

...UP), a department of the University of Oxford. OUP traces its history back to 1478, but its defining moment was perhaps the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the definitive record of the English language. In 1857, members of the Philological Society of London declared existing English lan...

...occurs. For example, all the occurrences of a word can be grouped to reveal its most frequent usage patterns. Here is a short extract from the Oxford English Corpus of the word sublime:The Oxford English CorpusThe Oxford English Corpus is one of many language corpora used by Oxford lexicographers. It conta...

“the most definitive lexicographic project in the development and promotion of the Setswana language since the publication of the first English-Setswana bilingual dictionary” Professor Thapelo Otlogetswe May 2016: Setswana has become the 6th language to become available in a...

Oxford’s bilingual dictionaries for learners of English explain the words you need to know in English, and help you learn how to use them.The dictionaries are compiled by people who have taught English in...

...f Oxford. Our mission is to provide reliable, evidence-based, up-to-date dictionaries. We are a global organization, covering major languages such as English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, and less widely spoken ones such as isiZulu and Malay. See a list of all of our languages her...

...orms and processes.Rich, detailed, versatile dataWe have comprehensive dictionary datasets in many different languages, from global languages such as English and Chinese to regional languages such as isiZulu and Malay. These datasets go far beyond simply giving the definitions of words: they include inform...

...with language, there is a product to suit you:oxforddictionaries.comOxford Dictionaries offers free access to dictionary content from these languages:EnglishSpanishisiZuluNorthern SothoUrduMalaySetswanaIndonesianIndonesianHindiSwahiliRomanianLatvianHistorical EnglishOxford Dictionaries is home to the world...

...ity of spellcheckers why do children need a dictionary?A spellchecker is fine if you want to check a word like ‘Tyrannosaurus’ or ‘archaeologist’ but English has many confusable words and homonyms that a spellchecker cannot identify e.g. ‘there’ and ‘their’. Only a dictionary can help with common grammar a...